SAL 
SAL 
Him the Most High, 
Wrapp’d in a balmy cloud with winged steeds. 
Did, as thou saw’st, receive; to walk with God 
High in salvation , and the climes of bliss, 
Exempt from death. Milton. 
SA'LVATORY, s. [salvatoire, Fr.] A place where 
any thing is preserved.—I consider the admirable powers 
of sensation,p hantasy, and memory, in which salvatories 
or repositories the species of things past are conserved. 
Hale. v , 
SALVAYLE RIVER, a tributary stream of the Ymaska, 
in the province of Lower Canada, and county of Richlieu, 
which falls into it about 20 miles before the latter joins the 
St Lawrence. 
SALUBRIOUS, adj. [salubris , Lat.] Wholesome; 
healthful; promoting health. 
The warm limbeck draws 
Salubrious waters from the innocent brood. Philips. 
SALUBRIOUSLY, adv. So as to promote health.— 
Does not the sweat of the mason and carpenter, who toil 
in order to partake the sweat of the peasant, flow as plea¬ 
santly and as salubriously, in the construction and repair 
of the majestick edifices of religion, as in the painted 
booths and sordid sties of vice and luxury. Burke. 
SALUBRITY, s. [ salubrite , Fr. Cotgrave. ] Whole¬ 
someness ; healthfulness. Bullokar. 
SALUDA, a river of the United States in South Carolina, 
which runs south-east, and unites with Broad river, just above 
Columbia, to form the Congaree. 
SALVE, s. [This word is originally and properly salf, 
which having salves in the plural, the singular in time was 
borrowed from it; pealp, Saxon; undoubtedly from salvut, 
Lat. Dr. Johnson.— The Latin word means merely safe, 
but the Goth salbon is to annoint; salbona, an ointment; 
salbe, German, the same. The change of b into v is not in¬ 
frequent. Todd.'] —A glutinous matter applied to wounds 
and hurts; an emplaster. 
Let us hence my sov’reign, to provide 
A salve for any sore that may betide. Shakspeare. 
Help ; remedy.—If they shall excommunicate me, hath 
the doctrine of meekness any salve for me then. Ham¬ 
mond. 
To SALVE, v. a. [ salbon , Goth, salben. Germ, pealpan, 
Saxon, to annoint.] To cure with medicaments applied. 
The which if I perform, and do survive, 
I do beseech your majesty may salve 
The long-grown wounds of my intemperance. Shakspeare. 
To help; to remedy. 
Some seek to salve their blotted name 
With others blot, till all do taste of shame. Sidney. 
To help or save by a salvo, an excuse, or reservation.— 
Ignorant I am not how this is salved, they do it but after the 
truth is made manifest. Hooker. [From salvo, Latin.] To 
salute. Obsolete. 
That stranger knight in presence came. 
And goodly salved them : who uought again 
Him answered as courtesy became. Spenser . 
SALVER, s. [A vessel, I suppose, used at first to carry 
away or save what was left. Johnson.] A plate on which any 
thing is presented.—He has printed them in such a portable vo - 
lume that many of them may be ranged together on a single 
plate; and is of opinion that a salver of spectators would be 
as acceptable an entertainment for the ladies, as a salver of 
sweetmeats. Addison. 
SALVER-SHAPED, in Botany, hypocrateriformis, is 
a term appropriated to a regular monopetalous corolla, with 
a horizontal limb, and an elongated tube, as in the prim¬ 
rose. 
SALVETAT D’ANGLES, La, a small town in the south 
of France, in Languedoc, situated on the Agout. Popula¬ 
tion 2800; 58 miles west of Montpelier. Lat. 43. 35.53. N. 
long. 2. 32.13. E. 
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SALVETAT PEYRALET, La, a small town in the south 
of France, in the department of the Aveyron; 22 miles south¬ 
west of Rhodez. 
- SALVIA [from salvare ; on account of its healing quali¬ 
ties], in Botany, a genus of the class diandria, order rnono- 
gynia, natural order of verticillatse. Labiatae (Juss.) —Ge¬ 
neric Character. Calyx: perianth one-leafed, tubular, stri¬ 
ated, gradually widening, and compressed at the top ; mouth 
erect, two-lipped; lower lip two-toothed. Corolla one-pe- 
talled, unequal; tube widening at the top, compressed; 
border ringent, upper lip concave, compressed, curved in¬ 
wards, emarginate; lower lip wide, trifid, middle segment 
larger, roundish, emarginate. Stamina: filaments two, very 
short; two threads are fastened transversely to these almost 
in the middle, on the lower extremity of which is a gland, 
on the upper an anther. Pistil: germ four-cleft. Style fili¬ 
form, very long, in the same situation with the stamens. 
Stigma bifid. Pericarp none. Calyx very slightly converg¬ 
ing, having the seeds in the bottom of it. Seeds four, 
roundish.—The singular forking of the filaments constitutes 
the essential character. Rudiments of two stamens, but bar¬ 
ren ones, in the opening of the corolla. Gland in most 
species callous, but in a few a sort of rudiment of an anther 
with little or no pollen occurs.— Essential Character. Co¬ 
rolla unequal. Filaments fastened transversely to a pedicel. 
1. Salvia /Egyptiaca, or Egyptian sage.—Leaves lanceo¬ 
late, toothletted, flowers peduncled. This is an annual 
plant, a foot high, stiff and brachiate. Corollas white, with 
the upper lip very short, emarginate, not compressed; the 
lower trifid, with the middle segment violet-coloured and 
dotted. Stamens small, with blueish anthers.—Native of 
Egypt and the Canary Islands. 
2. Salvia dentata, or tooth-leaved sage.—Leaves linear- 
oblong, tooth-pinnatifid, whorls two-flowered, calycine seg¬ 
ments blunt.—Native of the Cape of Good Hope. It flowers 
in December and January. 
3. Salvia Cretica, or Cretan sage.—Leaves linear-lanceo¬ 
late, flowers two-styled, calyxes two-leaved. Styles two, 
with simple stigmas.—Native of the island of Candia. It 
flowers from June to August, and is shrubby. 
4. Salvia lyrata, or lyre-leaved sage.—Root-leaves oblong, 
resembling those of the common bugle, above dark green 
with dark purple spots about the veins, beneath dusky pur¬ 
ple. The whole hirsute; the hairs on the upper part spring¬ 
ing from dots or small tubercles.—Native of Virginia and 
Carolina. 
5. Salvia leucantha.—Leaves linear-lanceolate, crenulate, 
wrinkled, flowers whorl-spiked, calyxes tomentose. Stems 
branched, upright, five feet high.—Native of Mexico. It 
flowers at Madrid in November and December. 
6. Salvia habliziana.—Leaves linear, entire, pubescent, 
sessile, flowers whorl-spiked, bractes ovate, acuminate. This 
is a handsome plant. Stem indistinctly quadrangular, 
pubescent. There are commonly leafy branches from the 
upper axils of the leaves..—Native of Tauris. 
7. Salvia officinalis, or garden sage.—The common gar¬ 
den sage is a branching shrub, about two feet in height. 
The younger branches are tomentose and whitish. The 
leaves are wrinkled, cinereous white or tinged with dusky 
purple, on very short petioles, sometimes eared at the base. 
Flowers terminating, in long spikes composed of six-flowered 
whorls, approximating yet distinct. Bractes ovate, acute, 
deciduous. Calyx striated, five-toothed; the teeth acute, 
the three upper ones nearly equal and smaller. Corolla 
blue.—Native of the South of Europe, and Barbary. There 
are five varieties. It still keeps its ground in the kitchen for 
sauce to luscious and strong meats. 
8. Salvia grandiflora, or broad-leaved garden sage.— 
Leaves cordate-oblong, crenate, whorls many-flowered, ca¬ 
lyxes acute. This is called balsamic sage by the gardeners. 
The stalks do not grow so upright as those of the common 
sage; they are very hairy, and divide into several branches. 
It flowers in June, and in good seasons the seeds ripen in 
autumn. 
9. Salvia triloba, three-lobed sage, or Sage of Virtue.— 
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